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Voice actor

Cheech Marin

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39 min
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Coco

Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina · 2017

Twelve-year-old Miguel, banned from music by his shoemaking family, is pulled into the Land of the Dead on the Day of the Dead and has to win his deceased great-great-grandfather's blessing before sunrise or be trapped there. Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina's Pixar feature, developed over years of research trips to Mexico and a cultural consultant group formed after a trademark controversy, builds its fantasy rules around a specific, sourced idea: that the dead persist only as long as someone living remembers them.

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The Book of Life

Jorge R. Gutiérrez · 2014

A bullfighter who would rather play guitar navigates a love triangle, his family's expectations and a wager between two gods of the afterlife. Jorge R. Gutierrez's 2014 directorial debut renders its Day of the Dead setting as carved wooden folk art brought to motion.

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The Lion King

Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff · 1994

The Lion King follows Simba, a lion cub exiled after his uncle Scar arranges his father Mufasa's death, as he grows up away from his kingdom and eventually returns to reclaim it. Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff directed after an earlier documentary-style version by George Scribner was abandoned for a musical treatment with songs by Elton John and Tim Rice and a score by Hans Zimmer. Made on a $45 million budget, it grossed $968.5 million, becoming the highest-grossing traditionally animated film ever made and winning the Academy Award for Best Original Score.